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Edward Jenner vaccinating a boy. Oil painting by E.-E. Hillemacher, 1884.

A dispensary in the East End of London: crowds of local children are being vaccinated. Wood engraving by E. Buckman, 1871.

A doctor vaccinating children in a clinic, other mothers and children are waiting, in the background is a man getting serum from a cow. Photogravure after J. Scalbert, 1890.

A man vaccinating a young child held by its mother, with other members of the household looking on. Oil painting by L.-L. Boilly, 1807(?).

Vaccination: "Dr Jenner performing his first vaccination, 1796". Oil painting by Ernest Board.

A diseased woman turning into a mermaid, a physician with a lancet riding on a cow and an apothecary wielding a syringe form a grotesque procession, scaring children as they go; referring to the distrust of the French public in the face of vaccination. Coloured etching.

A father looks over his vaccinated, ugly child and is glad that his face will be spared the blemishes of smallpox. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1846.

Working paper (Institute of Development Studies (Brighton, England))

Working paper (University of Sussex. Institute of Development Studies)

MMR mobilisation : citizens and science in a British vaccine controversy / Melissa Leach.

<p>A woman doctor is inoculating a group of children with vaccines to provide immunity to smallpox. Local doctors were tasked to go to schools to vaccinate children collectively</p>

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 52.7 x 76.7 cm (kai ben [sheet format] 787 x 1092)

China during the Cultural Revolution: a woman doctor inoculating a group of children with vaccines. Colour lithograph after Ma Lequn, 1974.

Studies of current health problems

Childhood vaccination : current controversies / [researched and written by Nicholas Wells].

<p>The story of anti-vaccine activity in America, its origins, leaders, influences, and impact.</p>

Deadly choices : how the anti-vaccine movement threatens us all / Paul A. Offit.

Immunization in practice : a guide for health workers who give vaccines / World Health Organization.

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Vaccination of children

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MMR mobilisation : citizens and science in a British vaccine controversy / Melissa Leach.

China during the Cultural Revolution: a woman doctor inoculating a group of children with vaccines. Colour lithograph after Ma Lequn, 1974.

Childhood vaccination : current controversies / [researched and written by Nicholas Wells].

Deadly choices : how the anti-vaccine movement threatens us all / Paul A. Offit.

Immunization in practice : a guide for health workers who give vaccines / World Health Organization.

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Vaccination of children

Images

Catalogue

MMR mobilisation : citizens and science in a British vaccine controversy / Melissa Leach.

China during the Cultural Revolution: a woman doctor inoculating a group of children with vaccines. Colour lithograph after Ma Lequn, 1974.

Childhood vaccination : current controversies / [researched and written by Nicholas Wells].

Deadly choices : how the anti-vaccine movement threatens us all / Paul A. Offit.

Immunization in practice : a guide for health workers who give vaccines / World Health Organization.

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